It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

  • -- Joyce Maynard 乔伊斯·梅纳德

让我感到困扰的是,人们说为钱写作既丑陋又令人反感。

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You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.

你一开始写不好东西。你一开始写的都是废话,你认为这是好东西,然后渐渐地你就能写得更好了。这就是为什么我说最宝贵的品质之一是坚持。

I'm very, very Spanish. I have fat cheeks on both ends. I'm sitting on my Spanish part. And it's my heart, the way I am, the way I speak. It has nothing to do with the way I look.

我非常非常西班牙。我两颊都很胖。我坐在我的西班牙语部分。这是我的心,我现在的样子,我说话的方式。这和我的长相无关。

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

写作的目的是拿起一面反映自然的镜子,但今天太多的东西都是用小镜子在虚荣的情况下写出来的。

I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me.

可以说,我只是追随我的幸福,然后我看到了它把我带到哪里。